📚✨ Story Hour is Back! ✨📚

 After a big and exciting summer, we are so happy to welcome everyone back to Story Hour! 🎉📖

Today was our first Story Hour after the summer break, and it was so much fun! We were excited to see many new faces joining us and sharing in the joy of stories, learning, and imagination. 💛

For today’s Story Hour, we enjoyed two wonderful stories:

📕 “Back to School” — a fun story to help our little readers get ready for a new school year! 🎒✏️

🌺 Pohnpeian Legend: “Saudeleur” — bringing our local history, culture, and traditional stories into our Story Hour. 🌴📖

A very special thank you to Emmy and Ronsann for reading today’s wonderful stories and making Story Hour so enjoyable for the children. Your time, energy, and love for storytelling made the afternoon extra special! ❤️👏

Story Hour is more than just listening to a book—it helps children build their imagination, improve their listening and language skills, discover new ideas, and develop a lifelong love of reading. 📚✨

Come join us, meet new friends, discover wonderful stories, and give your child a fun place to learn and grow. Every story is a new adventure! 🌟

We can’t wait to see even more of our young readers at the next Story Hour! 💕📖

Bring your little ones, bring their imagination, and let’s read together! 📚🌈

Welcome to the Library Family!

Friends of the Pohnpei Public Library Board and staff are delighted to welcome Mr. David Maney from Australian Volunteers International, who will be serving as our Children’s Inclusive Librarian Mentor for the next six months. Still squinting at Pohnpei’s sun, he is ready to brighten our library with inclusive ideas and a heart for every child. 

Mr. Maney’s mission is to help us make the library a truly welcoming space for all children and families. His goals include, empowering our staff to feel confident in making choices, supporting families of children with disabilities so they know the library is a place they can visit regularly and building an inclusive environment where every child feels at home. 

 We look forward to learning from his expertise and working together to strengthen our library as a hub of inclusion, learning, and community. 

 Please join us in giving Mr. Maney a warm Kaselehlie and wishing him success in his mentorship journey with us!

Check out our inclusive program!

Throughout the rest of 2026 library staff will work with Australian volunteer, David Maney, Children's Inclusive Librarian mentor. Our goal is to make the library a welcoming place for children with disabilities and their families. This will include: 

-inclusive language and autism awareness workshop. 

-learning to use picture communication systems. 

-creating a social story for the library.

-offering a Weekly Inclusive Story Hour.

 We hope you can join us as we develop our inclusive practice at the Pohnpei Public Library.

VCS Construction

Friends of the Pohnpei Public Library wish to inform the public that the Library playground will have limited access while improvement works are carried out by VCS Construction. 

The project is expected to finish by October 2026. The Library itself remains open to patrons. This notice is simply to keep everyone aware of the ongoing construction on the premises. We appreciate your patience and understanding as we continue working to improve our facilities for the community